A5015482665- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
- Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Bone health and treatments
- Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Estrogen and related hormone effects
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
University of Algarve
2016-2025
Shanghai Ocean University
2017-2025
Ministry of Education
2024
The University of Queensland
2024
For Mar Centro de Formação Profissional das Pescas e do Mar
2010-2023
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
2022
Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve
2009-2022
Institute of Marine Research
2014
University of Gothenburg
2013
Institut de Ciències del Mar
2012
The European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is a temperate-zone euryhaline teleost of prime importance for aquaculture and fisheries. This species subdivided into two naturally hybridizing lineages, one inhabiting the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean other Mediterranean Black seas. Here we provide high-quality chromosome-scale assembly its genome that shows high degree synteny with more highly derived teleosts. We find expansions gene families specifically associated ion water regulation,...
Biodiversity is of crucial importance for ecosystem functioning, sustainability and resilience, but the magnitude organization marine diversity at a range spatial taxonomic scales are undefined. In this paper, we use second-generation sequencing to unmask putatively diverse metazoan biodiversity in Scottish temperate benthic ecosystem. We show that remarkable differences occurred microgeographical refute currently accepted ecological paradigms meiofaunal identity, rank abundance concomitant...
Songlin Chen, Manfred Schartl, Qingyin Wang, Deborah M. Power and colleagues analyze the genome of Japanese flounder its transcriptome dynamics during metamorphosis. They report a role for thyroid hormone retinoic acid signaling, as well phototransduction pathways, in regulation craniofacial asymmetry. Flatfish have most extreme asymmetric body morphology vertebrates. During metamorphosis, one eye migrates to contralateral side skull, this migration is accompanied by extensive...
The Antarctic clam, Laternula elliptica, is an infaunal stenothermal bivalve mollusc with a circumpolar distribution. It plays significant role in bentho-pelagic coupling and hence has been proposed as sentinel species for climate change monitoring. Previous studies have shown that this displays high level of plasticity regard to shell deposition damage repair against background genetic homogeneity. Southern Ocean amongst the lowest present-day CaCO3 saturation rate any ocean region,...
Eukaryotic diversity in environmental samples is often assessed via PCR-based amplification of nSSU genes. However, estimates derived from pyrosequencing data sets are inflated, mainly because the formation chimeric sequences during PCR amplification. Chimeras hybrid products composed distinct parental that can lead to misinterpretation estimates. We have analyzed effect sample richness, evenness and phylogenetic on chimeras using a set 454 Roche replicated, large control pools closely...
Abstract Aim Meiofaunal communities that inhabit the marine benthos offer unique opportunities to simultaneously study macroecology of numerous phyla exhibit different life‐history strategies. Here, we ask: (1) if meiobenthic is explained mainly by dispersal constraints or environmental conditions; and (2) levels meiofaunal diversity surpass existing estimates based on morphological taxonomy. Location UK mainland European coast. Methods Next‐generation sequencing techniques ( NGS ; R oche...
The gut microbial community is critical for the host immune system, and in recent years, it has been extensively studied vertebrates using 'omic' technologies. In contrast, knowledge about how interactions between water temperature diet affect microbiota of marine invertebrates that do not thermoregulate much less studied. present study, effect elevated seawater (Isochrysis zhanjiangensis Platymonas helgolandica var. tsingtaoensis) on commercial mussel, Mytilus coruscus, was investigated....
The slow reaction rates to chemical and photochemical degradation are well-known properties of plastics. However, large plastic surfaces exposed environmental conditions release particles compounds that affect ecosystems human health. aim this work was identify associated with the polyethylene (PE), polystyrene (PS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) microplastics (markers) on silica sand evaluate their use screen natural sand. Products were identified by using targeted untargeted LC-HRMS analysis....
Thirty neurologically impaired (Glasgow Coma Score less than 7) patients were evaluated to determine if changes in serum levels of thyroid hormone, cortisol, insulin, or lactate suggest that replacement therapy is needed before removal organs for donation. Serum free thyroxine (fT4), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), reverse T3 (rT3), and monitored 16 after brain death 14 additional who similarly compromised but did not become dead. Low fT3, normal fT4, high rT3 as found most consistent...
The positive buoyancy of marine fish eggs in sea water, allowed by hydration the oocyte, is critical for their survival and dispersion ocean. We isolated an aquaporin, SaAQP1o, that belongs to a unique subfamily aquaporin-1-like channels specifically evolved teleosts mainly expressed ovary. further show hormone-induced oocyte highly controlled process based on interplay between protein hydrolysis translocation SaAQP1o plasma membrane, indicating specialized physiological role this aquaporin.
Abstract Background Comparative approaches using protostome and deuterostome data have greatly contributed to understanding gene function organismal complexity. The family 2 G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are one of the largest best studied hormone neuropeptide receptor families. They suggested arisen from a single ancestral via duplication events. Despite recent identification members in early genomes, relatively little is known about their or origin during metazoan divergence. In this...
Abstract The gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata L.) is a marine fish of great importance for fisheries and aquaculture. It has also peculiar sex-determination system, being protandrous hermaphrodite. Here we report the construction first-generation genetic linkage map S. aurata, based on 204 microsatellite markers. Twenty-six groups (LG) were found. total length was 1241.9 cM. ratio between sex-specific lengths 1:1.2 (male:female). Comparison with preliminary radiation hybrid (RH) reveals...
Abstract Background The parathyroid hormone (PTH)-family consists of a group structurally related factors that regulate calcium and bone homeostasis are also involved in development organs such as the heart, mammary gland immune system. They interact with specific members family 2 B1 G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), which have been characterised teleosts mammals. Two PTH/PTHrP receptors, PTH1R PTH2R exist mammals teleost fish further receptor PTH3R has identified. Recently chicken,...
Abstract While regeneration occurs in a number of taxonomic groups across the Metazoa, there are very few reports mammals, which generally respond to wounding with fibrotic scarring rather than regeneration. A recent report described skin shedding, and extensive ear punch closure two rodent species, Acomys kempi percivali . We examined these striking results by testing capacity for third cahirinus , found remarkable repair full thickness circular punches pinna. Four‐millimeter‐diameter...
Abstract An increasing number of studies are showing that Antarctic mega- and macrofauna highly diverse, however, little is known about meiofaunal biodiversity in sediment communities, which a vital part healthy functional ecosystem. This the first study to analyse community DNA (targeting meiofauna) using metabarcoding investigate levels communities Peninsula. The results show almost all benthic habitat has yet be characterised, were higher than expected similar temperate regions, albeit...